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Who said artists can't be good at business?
Girl next door
Why the long face?
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Think of what you'd save on wrinkle cream...
Graceful
It takes two to tango
The OG wet t-shirt contest
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
The Devil Wears Prada meets My Girl
Coveted by an artistic priest with sticky fingers
A-Hunting We Will Go
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Just another beheading. Yawn
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
It’s a rich man’s world
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Her genital puns are not gentle
Son of Cranach the Elder
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
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Rockstar painter and (unknowingly) painter of album covers for rockstars
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Click here for discounted pizza
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Colonel underpants
Dutch nicknames are bizarre
Death to rapist scum!
He gave the people what they wanted
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Young and the Restless meets The Old and the Feckless
So. creepy.
Creepers gonna creep
That's So Graven
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Hello, Darkness my old friend
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Last chance to get some before it all goes to hell!
Like a sale at your local mall...in Hell.
Tie the devil to a pillow
Really expensive calendar
Time to break out your magnifying glass
omg a wedding in a barn, that's so on trend
It's Saul in utter chaos
Ain’t no party like a Pieter Bruegel the Elder party
A teacher's nightmare
When he ugly but he Jesus
Original cowboys
Gallery within a gallery
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Go at your own risk
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Kindred spirits
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Exotic dancing pays off in a gruesome way for Salome
Boy drowns; no one cares
2 spoopy 4 me
An ophthalmologist's favorite painting
Mmmm...peacock
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Bad boy of the academy
Cleaning dramaaa
Baby before the Baptist
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
Two of each
Paint me in too, old buddy
Where do I look first?
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Not very smart, but had rich supportive parents
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Let your freak flag fly
Man of mystery
Portraitist of unfortunate accuracy
Sounds like salami
Watch now
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Should have stayed in the corn business
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
"Talent is cheap"
Fancy pornographer
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
Pretty fly for a (Louisiana) white guy
Everyman painter
Burr's best bud
All the glee of youngsters
Rockstar of the high court
Art as political protest
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
That way it’s rent-free
When you need to practice painting dead people
Carravagio having a bad head day
Up in smoke!
Let's hope this baby stays decapitated
Begging for bad karma
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Ladies Man
Wet blanket
easy, breezy, beautiful
Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.
honestly pretty vanilla
Hated Picasso
Like a nocturnal Canaletto
Conversion artist
It's His Majesty's handyman, at your service
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Treasures around every corner
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
His family reluctantly accepted his painter lifestyle
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
The sweetest Judith of them all
A political statement
When you just killed Goliath no one dares tell you how to dress, even if it's like this
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
Never underestimate the women
Murder, but make it fashion
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Come one, come all
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Italian sass with Segatori
A bloody family affair
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Cleanly decapitation
Problematic, but in a nice way
How's the air up there?
Arcimboldo's Greatest Hits
Haunted horse
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Flip it and reverse it
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Too school for cool
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
paint me like one of your founding fathers
Ghostwood
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
French portrait inception
Cooler than cool
Did you fail geography?
Dionysus' groupies
Clearly not a hobo
Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
Miscreants of Mammon
Does this wax cast make my thigh look fat?
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
Kirsten Dunst copied this
A hairy art critic
Men brought down by a strap
Where will you be when the plague hits?
Caused a stir after its unveiling because of all the hot leg action.
Country bliss you can still visit... for now.
His teeth and ambitions are bared
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
Lady Jane
It really went downhill from there
Snapshot of an elusive charmer.
Achey heart, breaky back
The ten-dollar Founding Father
You may recognize him from high school English class
Ahoy, Cap'n!
Notorious B.G.M. (Boy Genius Millais)
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Looking smug
Hellion with heart
The muse of Capri
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The penis is v. important in this one
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Buffalo Bill's Back Fat
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Stress-free
Award for most expressive horses
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Oooh, see that girl! Watch that scene! Dig in the Dancing Queeeeeeeeeeeeen!
But wait... there’s more!
Witch, please
The sallow, mustached face of imperialism
Welcome home, honey...
Has nothing to do with onions
Peace for everyone
Self love taken too far
These dresses aren't hiding anything
Heavy-handed relief
See ya later, Alligator
Crack open a cold one
Women digging graves?! Bury him, sis!
Just a whale dung kind of day
Renew the song she is singing
Six candles
Queen of masques unmasked
Identity crisis
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Where have we seen this lady before?
Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab
Richie Rich
Figurative expressionism fit for the POTUS
This is an apology portrait.
A political pain in the ass
Named after a coded slave song
A divine feminine unwavering
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
You talkin’ to me?
An early abstract portrait
Away, as in a trance
No days off
Scene so nice he painted it thrice
The sexy doctor is IN
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Lending the Communist Party a hand
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
#MILF
Accidental POTUS
Telekinesis never sounded so good
aka "Darnation, Silly, Silly, Pose"
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
No relation to the steak
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Meddlesome Millie
Feasting feathered friends
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Our founding mother
When the guilt just keeps on coming.
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Choo choo twain
Don’t mansplain!
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
A bargain at twice the price
Friend of the fam
Total poser
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Criticizing the critics
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
When Doves Cry
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Boy, did he know how to paint a figure
Plaster king
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
So get ready!
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Primary artistic medium is Snapchat
Man of many hats
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Say that name five times fast.
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
